Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social release has become notoriously pervasive, with the result that alcoholism is now approaching epidemic proportions. Time was when Japanese restricted their drinking to Shinto festivals, viewing cherry blossoms or the celebrations of births and marriages. Not so today. A majority of habitual drunks are businessmen. A new survey reveals that in Japan there are more than 3 million alcoholics and problem drinkers-6% of the adult population. This is a fourfold jump since World...
Cecil Andrus, who was twice elected Governor of Idaho before moving to Washington to become Secretary of the Interior last year. He revisited them last week, floating down the Snake in an inflatable rubber "snout boat" and heading to shore frequently to stop and survey the vistas. "I've been watching that old bird for years," said Andrus as he removed his battered stetson and stooped to peer through a telescope at a golden eagle perched like a gargoyle on a precipice. The eagle was not the only acquaintance Andrus renewed on the trip, which was organized...
...Denmark is pioneering the decruitment program, and a survey of 1,285 Danish managers over 50 showed that 70% preferred downgrading to retirement. Knud Overø, 56, the chief executive of another Danish firm, Ferrosan, which manufactures Pharmaceuticals, moved down to work half time in long-term planning. With decruitment, some people expect to work past 80. But, warns Ebbe Groes, 66, the former chief of Co-Op Denmark, who stepped aside last year and now helps represent the company in its overseas affairs, "if you give the former top executive any authority over his successor, the system will...
...Navy has been the nation's favorite means of flexing its muscles. A 1976 survey by the Brookings Institution found that in the 215 cases since World War II in which military force was used for political goals, the Navy was deployed 177 times. A visit by the battleship Missouri to Istanbul in 1946 countered mounting Soviet pressures on Turkey, for example, while in 1958 U.S. amphibious activity off Lebanon's coast bolstered a friendly government in Beirut. More recently, the rescue of the U.S. freighter Mayaguez in 1975 after its capture by Cambodian Communists demonstrated America's continuing interest...
...unease over Carter has spread, he has dropped in the polls. In the New York Times-CBS survey released this month, only 46% feel he is performing well. A Harris-ABC poll puts the approval figure at 43%, though it is up from 36% in March. The Iowa Poll, the most respected in the Midwest, indicates that Carter is in a "public opinion tailspin" that has been gaining momentum in recent months. Those giving him a favorable report plummeted from 80% a year ago to 45% this month, a drop that was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his last...